Word: kuchel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those years, in the shadow of the giants stood U.S. Senator Thomas H. Kuchel (pronounced Kee-kul), whom Governor Warren had appointed in 1952 to fill out Nixon's unexpired Senate term. An index of Kuchel's power was the makeup of the California delegation to the 1956 Republican Convention: Nixon, Knowland and Knight divided up the delegation, each taking 23 seats. The one remaining seat went to Kuchel...
...boys have been retired. And Tommy Kuchel, 52, a lawyer by training, looms on California's Republican landscape like a lone tree on an arid plain. His talent for winning elections has made him the No. 1 Republican of the nation's most populous state. Nine times he has run for public office-assemblyman, state senator, state controller, U.S. Senator-and he has yet to lose a race. Last year, when Pat Brown trounced Nixon and Democrats won nearly every statewide contest in California, Kuchel retained his Senate seat by a landslide margin of 728,000 votes...
...nomination and with it control of the Republican party and only secondarily in preparing an election strategy. If, however, he sacrifices too much of his liberalism, he will lose what chance he has of being elected. Governor Rockefeller should remember that in 1962 the liberal Republicans, such as Kuchel and Javits, emerged with the most impressive pluralities, while Capehart and Nixon were defeated...
...other offices on Capitol Hill, the mail told the same story. California's Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel has received five letters favoring President Kennedy's tax program out of 2,000 letters about it. Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert H. Humphrey has received 700 letters about taxes so far this session-and only one of them clearly approved of the President's proposals. Humphrey staffers talk jokingly of framing that lone letter on the Senator's office wall...
...Looking toward 1964, Kentucky's Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper allowed as how his party's "best chance" for success is a ticket headed by New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller for President and California's Senator Thomas Kuchel for Vice President...